Blood of the Damned - Thorn (Vaughn Winery #1) by JP Sayle

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Sommelier Ledger Rain is running from his past mistakes. What does Vaughan Winery have to offer him? Everything.

Ledger unexpectedly gains an unusual mate, his boss, Thorn Vaughan, and life swiftly becomes a roller coaster ride full of dips, heights, twists and turns. Extinct vampires with stunning wings, a proposal, a wedding—and babies. And as if that isn’t enough, his carriage on this particular ride is about to be derailed when he discovers his mate’s secret.

Thorn is gay, but unfortunately vampire dhampirs—their mates—are female. Or so he believes until he gets a male mate. Now he’s in uncharted territory, and what will result from their mating, nobody knows. When Ledger becomes pregnant one question needs answering. How are baby vampires born?

Ledger is going to find out—the painful way.

Blood of the Damned—Thorn, book one in the Vaughn Winery Series, is the fall of the first Vaughn brother, where a vampire learns that hiding from Fate is a nonstarter.

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4 out of 5 (very good)

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This book is set in the Divergent Omegaverse world, but spins off. You don't need to read those books before this one; you can pick it straight up. However, I personally recommend you read at least Alpha's Divergent Omega. It will give you a better picture of this world and what it means to be Divergent here. Lane and Derick make a visit here. 

Ledger is Divergent: He has an inner animal, a squirrel, but he cannot shift. He runs to the Vaugn Winery to get away from a break-up. Meeting his mate was never in the plan, finding out that mate is his new boss AND a vampire?? Mind-blowing, but Ledger and Thorn run with it, until Thorn discovers just how vampire babies are born. 

I love Ms Sayle, you know I do, but this book takes me back to the very beginning of her author career, and I'm left with questions! 

So many bloody questions and feelings!! And, as is par for the course with this author, I cannot voice all of them, and that is so frustrating!! My book brain is doing overtime, while battling a nasty cold, and I can't get them all out. 

I can voice some though! 

I liked this a lot. It doesn't focus so much on the divergent part of Ledger and more on the vampire part of Thorn, and his brothers: Calvert and Dacian. There is a sister, Elouise, but she is only talked about and to on the phone, but doesn't really play a part, other than to tell Thorn just how vampire babies are born! 

I found the relationship between the others amusing. Dacian takes great pleasure in winding Thorn up, but Calvert is more subdued. His feelings about Thorn and Ledger become known through the book, and I wonder if Ms Sayle will make him wait til last to find his dhampir, his fated mate. 

It's steamy, and that steam runs right through the book. 

so, questions! What was the thing with the increased wine order?? That was mentioned and left hanging. And I wanna know! 

Who is next?? Will each vampire be mated to a Divergent? Or will there be some surprises? OOOH Will Elouise get a book too?? 

Feelings?? You should know this is an m-preg world, and there is a male pregnancy in this book AND a vampire birth. (which was slightly faded to grey, and I'm so glad it was! But now I know, I can prepare myself for next time, cos I have a feeling that the next one might not be quite so simple as using thrall!)

I feel this has been deliberately left sort of open-ended. While there is the birth of Ledger's babies, the book ends there. And that is my biggest and strongest feeling: There is more to come for Thorn and Ledger. 

And I want to be front and centre!! 

4 very VERY good stars

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